Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professed purpose of the new club to discuss social and economic problems is both legitimate and worthy, and as such it ought to be permitted. Nothing is to be gained by gruff intervention, for this move merely gains sympathy for those whom the authorities would suppress. Whatever the reasons may be, the least that can be demanded is that the chancellor give the club fair consideration and not merely the mute condemnation exhibited thus...
Pronunciamentos on what a college education is and disquisition on what it ought to be have become as numerous and almost as ingenious as arguments about the Eighteenth Amendment. John Erskine has daff'd them all aside and bid them pass...
...accompanied by such noises as wolves howling, bats screeching, and women screaming, Lugosi, in the form of a huge bat, flits in and out of the windows of Carfax Abbey, close to which most of the action takes place. Dracula is an exciting melodrama, not as good as it ought to be but a cut above the ordinary trapdoor-and-winding-sheet type of mystery film. Silliest sound: Helen Chandler's feeble soprano chirrup uttered repeatedly as an indication of superhuman fear...
Since the object of the reading in the Bible and Shakspere is to give students a background for the study of any period in the field of History and Literature, it ought to be done as early as possible. If the examinations in these subjects came in May of the Sophomore year instead of at the present inappropriate time, they would be less irritating to those who have to take them, and far more likely to fulfill their purpose...
...special function of any graduate school to carry on research in its particular field. Like the various faculties of the medieval universities it ought to be a center of thought on its subject. In addition to teaching long established knowledge the graduate school has the task of evolving new theories...